Author: Franz Fischer

We are pleased to invite you to a two-day workshop that aims at exploring the theories, methodologies, and tools of the critical apparatus. This seminar is organised by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice together with University of Cologne – CCeH (Cologne Centre for eHumanities) and Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati, within the ERC StG Project BIFLOW seminar programme “Lingue, saperi e conflitti nell’Italia medievale 3 (2018)”. The first day will give an introduction to the encoding of a critical apparatus through TEI (Text Encoding Initiative), whereas the second day will discuss in depth the theoretical framework surrounding the methods and methodologies, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of the new technologies on this topic.

From 9 to 13 October 2017 the University of Cologne is hosting an Epidoc Autumn school in combination with an expert workshop on digital sigillography. During the first three days the autumn school will introduce the participants to Epidoc, the encoding standard for epigraphic texts and materials. Wednesday afternoon is dedicated to presentations on advanced imaging technologies in the fields of epigraphy, papyrology and sigillography. On Thursday and Friday there will be an expert workshop focusing on digital formats and standards for the description and publication of seals and similar materials.

Abstract: “The traditional model of scholarship has been an exchange of ideas built up over time, using print; but in the second half of the twentieth century this became steadily more difficult, as the volume of academic publications increased, and the cost of printing rose. Cologne was the home of new approaches, particularly in epigraphy and papyrology – the Inschriften griechischer Städte aus Kleinasien series has transformed our understanding of the epigraphy of Asia Minor; and ZPE has stimulated new levels of conversation. In the home city of such innovation, I would like to ask what the 21st century might look like.”

The Cologne Centre for eHumanities (CCeH) is organising a three-day symposium from the 8th to the 10th of November at the University of Cologne. The event aims at exploring intersectional approaches on textual scholarship and Digital Humanities theories, practices, and tools. A session will be dedicated to Italian and German women writers during the Renaissance. This specific case study is part of a project funded by NetEx (Network and Exchange funding programme, University of Cologne).

We welcome proposals in any area of scholarship, that pay specific attention to intersectionality, and that employ digital and collaborative approaches to the study or the editing of marginalised subjectivities and their digital modelling and representations. We encourage the submission of projectsâ presentations at an advanced stage that investigate how digital technologies can re/produce, enable or restrict the construction of identities (e.g. in racialised and gendered terms).

Researchers of all levels, including students and professional practitioners, are welcome. We expect a diverse audience of textual scholars, historians, information scientists, social scientists, digital humanists, graduate students and interested members of the public. The communication language of the symposium will be English, but we are accepting proposals and papers in English, Italian and German.

Type of presentations:

– Short paper (20 minutes)
– Lightning talk (10 minutes)
– Posters

To submit a paper, please email an abstract to up to 300 words as an attachment to questioningmodelsdh@gmail.com by 31st August, 2017.

“Digital Editing and Medieval Manuscripts” is a series of three workshops organised by Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice together with the Cologne Center for eHumanities within the ERC StG Project BIFLOW seminar programme “Lingue, saperi e conflitti nell’Italia medievale”. It aims to explore the role of digital technologies in the field of medieval studies and to provide insights into current methodologies and digital tools in scholarly editing. These three workshops will introduce participants to current approaches for editing medieval manuscripts in a digital framework. During the workshops the following topics will be covered: palaeography; codicology; as well as practices and theories of digital editing, including critical apparatus, multilingualism and text-image linking.

Speech Recognition, Biometrics, Text-To-Speech, Natural Language Understanding and AI are key research areas to redefine the relationship between people and technology. Nuance’s Research team is working on all of these in order to develop a more human conversation with technology. This talk will highlight a few current research topics and trends in the company. Automotive solutions in cars on the road today and others that will come out in the next few years will be used to illustrate how achievements in Natural Language Understanding and AI help to create the next generation of digital assistants.

Ekaterina Kruchinina is a Research Manager in the Natural Language Understanding department at Nuance. Her principal research responsibilities are in NLU, machine learning, corpus annotation and evaluation of NLU systems. Ekaterina joined Nuance as a Senior Research Scientist in 2012. Before joining Nuance, she worked as a research associate at the JulieLab at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena. She received her Phd supervised by Prof. Dr. Udo Hahn (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena) and Prof. Ted Briscoe (University of Cambridge) with a dissertation titled “Event Extraction from Biomedical Texts Using Trimmed Dependency Graphs” in 2012. Ekaterina developed the relation extraction system JReX that was ranked second during the BioNLP 2009 Shared Task on Event Extraction (at NAACL-HLT 2009). Ekaterina has 12 years of academic and industry experience, leadership in development and application of cutting edge technology in NLP solutions for intelligent human-machine interfaces. Ekaterina speaks Russian, German, English and French. Ekaterina’s work has been featured in the article „Die Computerversteherin. Ein Job an der Schnittstelle von Mensch und Maschine“, c’t 04/2017.

Transkribus (https://transkribus.eu/Transkribus/) is a platform for the automated recognition, transcription and searching of handwritten historical documents. Transkribus is part of the EU-funded Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents (READ) (http://read.transkribus.eu/) project. The core mission of the READ project is to make archival material more accessible through the development and dissemination of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) and other cutting-edge technologies. The workshop is aimed at institutions, researchers, and students who are interested in the transcription, searching and publishing of historical documents. It will introduce participants to the technology behind the READ project and demonstrate the Transkribus transcription platform. Transkribus can be freely downloaded. Participants should bring their laptops along to the workshop. And have (if possible) Transkribus installed.